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pays the most for in absolute terms and is one of the largest direct contributors to NATO’s common budgets — roughly 15–16% of the alliance’s annual common budget — but that metric understates how ove...
In 1939 the world Jewish population is widely estimated at about 16.6 million, with roughly 9.5 million (57%) living in Europe and about 449,000 in Mandatory Palestine/Israel; Poland alone had about 3...
Eurostat reports that police-recorded sexual violence in the EU rose 79.2% from 2013 to 2023 and that rape offences more than doubled (a 141% increase) in that period; in 2023 the EU recorded 91,370 r...
Estimates of deaths tied to Soviet anti-religious policies vary wildly: some popular summaries claim “12–20 million” killed as part of anti-religious campaigns , while detailed scholarly and archival ...
NATO’s enlargement into the Baltic states was a political decision grounded in the Alliance’s treaty principle and the expressed requests of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; no binding international tr...
The EU imposed an effective bloc-wide ban on broadcasting RT and Sputnik in March 2022, prohibiting EU operators from “broadcasting, facilitating or otherwise contributing to the dissemination” of the...
Ukraine remains formally invited onto a NATO “irreversible path” toward membership but has not been given an accession invitation or timetable; NATO says membership will happen “when Allies agree and ...
NATO as an organisation publicly supports Ukraine’s “irreversible path” toward Euro‑Atlantic integration while stopping short of issuing an accession invitation; Allies committed roughly EUR 50bn in 2...
European reported rape rates for 2022–2023 cannot be pinned to a single definitive ranking because official counts and rates vary by source, legal definitions, and reporting practices; available analy...
Several sources show the EU moved to ban RT and Sputnik from broadcasting across the bloc in March 2022 and that national regulators and platforms enforced or supplemented those measures; however repo...
The Entry/Exit System (EES) will collect from non‑EU nationals in the majority of Schengen and EU countries when it starts operations on 12 October 2025, with progressive roll‑out completing by April ...
The origins of Ashkenazi Jewish communities in Europe are a complex mix of medieval migrations, local European admixture, and founder events that produced the modern population; genetic, historical, a...
Poland, the Soviet Union (territories now in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova) and other Eastern European countries suffered the largest proportional losses of their Jewish populations dur...
Yiddish formed as a Jewish vernacular in central Europe around the 9th–11th centuries from a base of Middle High German fused with Hebrew/Aramaic and later Slavic and Romance input; scholars date its ...
Genetic, archaeological, and historical analyses converge on a picture in which Ashkenazi Jews formed through multiple that combined Middle Eastern origins with substantial Southern European and later...
Two related but distinct claims appear across the provided analyses: that a higher number of premarital sexual partners (“high body count”) is associated with greater risk of divorce and lower marital...
Germany’s military spending has surged sharply in 2024 to roughly $88.5 billion (about €90–91 billion in reported figures), making it the ; this represents a roughly 28% rise from 2023 and an 89% rise...
Lithuania has approved a plan to acquire roughly 100 Swedish CV90 MkIV infantry fighting vehicles as part of a multi‑nation procurement involving five other NATO partners, a move the State Defence Cou...
Ashkenazi Jewish communities emerged in medieval Western Europe—first recorded in the Rhineland and northern France around the 10th century—and expanded eastward into Poland and other Slavic lands ove...
As of 2025, most mainstream listings identify five countries that constitutionally remain one‑party, Marxist‑Leninist or socialist states commonly described as “communist”: China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos ...